At the BETT Breakfast in London, we bumped into Liz Russell, a former teacher who set up an educational consultancy company, 21CLN. We spoke with her just as the news broke that Michael Gove, the education secretary in the UK, had made it easier for schools to fire teachers. Liz spoke to us about the pressures on teachers in the UK as well as about education consultancy in the UK and why schools need it.
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Podcast
Podcast: An interview with Tom Hodson
Tom Hodson is the president of Smart Technologies. We caught up with him at BETT 2012 at the Smart stand where he told us about his views for technology for this year. Tom also let us know about some of the new products SMART are going to be offering educators including a new interactive projector and Notebook 11, the new software for Smart Boards.
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June 2011 Podcast
This month’s podcast is the second last one of the school year. Simon discusses the recent cuts in children’s education but attempts to lift the gloom by celebrating the great work done by teachers all over Ireland. The podcast goes through all the articles on Anseo.net this month.
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ICS Skills Conference 2010
I was invited to speak at the Irish Computer Society’s annual conference in April. I was introduced as someone who would give an insight and examples into the virtual staff notice board and how I have made life a little easier for teachers using free web applications. I hope I managed to do that. My talk was based on my article, “Heads in the Cloud”, and I spoke about how my school utilises Google Apps for our complete communication system. For those of you who want to listen to the talk, below is a podcast. It does rely a little bit on a couple of images in places, but you should get a good picture of what I do, without seeing the slides.
Twitter Workshop Podcast
At the Tipperary Institute of Technology, as well as giving the keynote talk, I also gave a workshop entitled: “Becoming a member of the Twitterati”, which brought participants through signing up to Twitter, writing a tweet, following people and getting following, marking favourites and finally some recommendations of Twitter users to follow. Below is the podcast – enjoy!
Interview with Inside Education
A few weeks ago, I was interviewed by Seán Delaney, the presenter of Inside Education, a radio programme on Dublin City FM. Seán came to visit the school I work in and we had a chat about how I use technology in the school, my ideas about how technology can enhance learning and a brief summary of my latest project, Mash.ie. Seán’s radio show is the only radio show about education in Ireland. Luckily for me, who doesn’t live in Dublin, Dublin City FM stream every programme over the Internet so anyone in the world can listen to the show. Unfortunately, when the programme was aired, I was in Rossport, Co. Mayo in my mother-in-law’s house where there is no Internet connection. Thankfully, Seán podcasts the programme on iTunes so when I got back to Carlow, I could download the show. You can tune into Inside Education every Sunday evening at 7:30pm on Dublin City FM or check out the podcasts on InsideEd.com
Teachnet Cloud Computing Podcast
Recently I was asked to take part in a podcast on cloud computing by Teachnet. This was my third contribution to Teachnet’s brilliant podcasts – and my first that had nothing to do with Interactive Whiteboards! I’ve been using cloud computing for longer than the term has been bandied about but I am certainly no expert on it. I was intrigued by the other two speakers on the programme who had some really interesting things to say about the concept. I mentioned two cloud computing concepts in the podcast – Google Apps, which I use for staff communication, and Scriblink, http://www.scriblink.com/, which I’m beginning to look at for sharing virtual whiteboards. Anyway, take a listen to the discussion and, as always, look out for the other fantastic podcasts from Teachnet on http://blog.teachnet.ie
Anseo Podcast: A Wish for Batt O’Keeffe
The second of our IPPN podcasts was nothing to do with technology, though it was mentioned by some of the principals insterviewed. Rozz asked several principals, if they had one wish for Batt O’Keeffe, what would it be? Take a listen to the podcast and see what you think.
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Anseo.net bought a digital dictaphone and decided to go into the podcasting business. Our roving reporter, Rozz, took to the virtual airwaves for the first time at the Irish Primary Principals Network (IPPN) conference. She recorded a number of podcasts, which we’ll be uploading over the next while. Anseo.net would like to note that the opinions made in the podcast are not of the IPPN’s or (sometimes) Anseo.net. We’d like to thank all the willing interviewees for their time and we hope they enjoy listening to the sound of their own voices as much as we did!
In our first podcast, we ask principals, business people and educationalists what they think the next big thing in ICT in education will be.
[display_podcast]Teachnet Podcast – Interactive Whiteboards
This week I was invited by Teachnet to record a podcast for their series on the topic of Interactive Whiteboards. I have previously spoken about IWBs in my school on an earlier poscast with two other teachers but this time it was just me speaking about my own experiences and my own recommendations on IWBs.
In the podcast, I was asked about the different boards I have in my school, how teachers use them and the advantages and disadvantages of IWBs. I was also asked about how I choose an IWB when buying and then I gave my top three recommendations.
One board, I completely forgot about was the Hitachi Starboard, which is another IWB I love, so my apologies for leaving it out! There’s a new board on the scene, which I haven’t seen called the IQboard which also looks interesting so that may be one of my top tips at a future time.
Thanks to Pat and Michael for having me on their show for my third appearance. If anyone wants to hear the 17 minutes or so of my chat with Michael, either head over to http://blog.teachnet.ie/?p=1612 or you can listen to the poscast here.